Spring is here, and it's time for your computer to reflect the spirit of the season. To soak up all the feelings that come with warmer weather and budding nature, even when you're tucked indoors, change your computer wallpaper to one of these clean, ...

The first person to twist apart an Oreo, or sit backwards in a chair, or pretend a tennis racket was a guitar -- visionaries who recognized that everyday objects used by the masses have higher callings. I’ve joined them by turning my widescreen monit...

Good news, Mac users: You can now Snapchat on your Mac with a new unofficial Snapchat client called Snapped. Snapped is currently in beta, and brings much of the Snapchat experience to desktop. You can log in to your Snapchat account, send photos to ...

Most of us spend a significant part of the day staring at computer screens. And while the Internet offers a myriad of cat videos, food porn and other distractions, your desktop can remain rather bland at best and infuriatingly cluttered at worst. The...

On any given day, you'll likely scroll through dozens of webpages, and experience information overload. In the Internet age, it's a term that most people are all too familiar with, as daily emails, articles and websites bombard our screens. One deskt...

Intel will stop making desktop PC motherboards after the next generation of its chip technology arrives, the company has announced. The fourth-generation Core processors, codenamed "Haswell," will be the last line of chips for which Intel will build ...

Daunted by the missing start button in Windows' latest operating system? A new software called RetroUI helps you bring back the classic user interface. Windows 8 computers running the tool will log directly into an old-school Windows desktop, complet...

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter work well because people enjoy sharing their lives with friends. At the office, however, social networking with colleagues can feel forced. Many businesses are adopting social-networking tools in hopes of fos...

Computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha has launched its first Windows desktop app through Intel's AppUp store. Aimed primarily at laptops and Ultrabooks, the app sports an optimized user interface that takes advantage of the full PC screen as w...

Take on look at the world of mobile devices -- from multitouch smartphones and tablets to virtual assistants ready listen to your questions and give you answers -- and you get the idea that the world of interfaces is changing fast. Desktop interfaces...

Igor Faletski is the CEO of Mobify, a web platform that optimizes ecommerce and publishing sites for mobile and powers more than 20,000 sites. Remember when it took 23 clicks to find movie showtimes on your mobile phone? While that may seem like an e...

Mobile applications are most often slick containers of web content, packaged in such a way that they're more lovely to look at and fun to use than the browser. San Diego-based startup SweetLabs looks to bring these rich mobile app experiences to the ...

The recently launched Mashable Mac App has been downloaded more than 20,000 times in just four days. Our app, which launched in conjunction with the Mac App Store on Thursday, may be revealing of the store's initial popularity. What has your experien...

With today’s launch of the Mac App Store, we’re excited to announce the Mashable Mac App . The application makes it easier to navigate, read, save and share Mashable stories on Macs without opening up your browser. It also gives you the ability to re...

Apple has launched its long-awaited Mac App Store with more than 1,000 free and paid applications. The Mac App Store is essentially the desktop version of the same experience that iOS users have been enjoying for years: a categorized list of apps tha...

The wildly popular smartphone game Angry Birds is now available in Intel's AppUp netbook app store for Windows 7 and Windows XP platforms. Once again, the green pigs have stolen the birds' eggs, and you must get your revenge. By that, we mean slingsh...

Apple's application store for Macs may be coming on Monday, December 13, according to Appletell, which cites an inside source. Steve Jobs insisted on an early launch of the Mac App Store, perhaps to take advantage of the holiday shopping fever, the s...

Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, European Director of Google's online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they'll become more important than desktop PCs. “In three years time, d...

Just when you think you've tried every Twitter app out there, a few more appear on the scene. For Mac users that might have either grown tired of, or are looking for alternatives to, Tweetie, Twitterrific, Kiwi or Socialite, never fear, there are ind...

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